A Future Gas Strategy that sends us Back to the Future
Climate Council Media Release
Sharply rebuking the Albanese Government’s endorsement of gas beyond 2050, the Climate Council has labelled today’s Future Gas Strategy announcement as a regressive echo of the past.
Climate Council Head of Policy and Advocacy Dr Jennifer Rayner said: “Today’s announcement is more Back to the Future than Future Made in Australia. Australia is already using less gas, so the suggestion we need more of it sounds like Scott Morrison’s ‘gas led recovery’, not Anthony Albanese’s ‘renewable energy superpower’.
“More gas means more climate pollution and a more dangerous future, it’s that simple. The Albanese Government has a choice: cut climate pollution and seize the decade by scaling up clean energy, or support new gas projects. It can’t do both.
“Now is not the moment to add to our climate crisis by burning more gas. Signing Australia up to a future made on gas ignores climate scientists, who warn we are at risk of smashing through 1.5C of warming.
“The strategy seems to ignore forecasts of a global oversupply of gas and the government’s own plans to develop the workforce and supply chain for clean industries, which can power the next era of Australian prosperity if we go all in on them now.
“This can be Australia’s moment to start a sensible phase out of gas as we scale up the clean alternatives. More gas is a bad bet, against a safe climate future and a thriving clean economy.”
The Climate Council is Australia’s leading community-funded climate change communications organisation. We provide authoritative, expert and evidence-based advice on climate change to journalists, policymakers, and the wider Australian community.
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Harry Lime
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Harry Lime
Return to home pageIt’s now official;we have two fucking Liberal Parties.Who knew?
On other sites, I’ve seen apparent Greens and ALP types very unhappy, shitty. This looks poor, for Albanese, yet the Murdochery will not care, Dutton fails to comprehend anything and the nation faces a poor choice. Vote? Why? For whom?
I saw a comment somewhere – can’t remember where – but it went like this: I wish Labor had have won the last election.
Too bloody right.
Albanese’s only valid claim now is that he is not Morrison. The rest is bullshit. Pathetic.
I think we all agree that the transition from fossil fuels to renewables has to be seamless : we cannot as a society allow for a situation to arise where we are having power outages or complete failures because we have not allowed for unforeseen contingencies in this critical transition.
Ideally we should be able to run the two sources of energy (fossil fuel and renewable) side by side until such time as we have worked out all of the wrinkles in the solar/wind/storage equation.
I am quite relaxed about using gas in the energy transition, the only alternative is coalfired power stations. As a back up to a renewable-based power system gas makes sense as it can be turned on instantly while starting up a back up coal-fired power plant takes much longer.
We also need to take into account that as part of the transition, new sources of gas are needed to bolster supply beyond 2050 from projects like Woodside’s offshore Scarborough gasfield and the Narrabri project in NSW. The government have been put on notice that gas shortfalls will hit the eastern states by 2028 and Western Australia in 2030.
More critical at the moment is our transition away from internal combustion engines to electric road vehicles and in that context we are falling behind.
Seems to me that those big cash stuffed envelopes are just too good to ignore.
good one dance of the cuckoo, how effing sad that the loonie lovers, on this sight, are disappointed that labor is not loonie nor independent. To copy David’s line the suggestions that labor and the LNP are the same is bullshit. Still on David and his morrison jibe, Albo isn’t the lying rodent, nor the rabbott nor the copperman, not even little billy, either.
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Roswell labor(and they are doing a FAIR job) defeated morrison after little billy and torpid tanya shooting temselves in the foot to lose to the copperman
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Read the article by Alan Kohler in today’s New Daily.This Future Gas Strategy is a fatal error for a government that had the opportunity to pull us out of the shit bequeathed by the goon Dutton and his corrupt and dumb rabble.Died in the wool Labor supporters need to pull the wool out of their own eyes.They might have succeeded in wedging the others,but in so doing have wedged us all.
Climate crisis?What climate crisis?